Hey everyone!  This week's game is gonna be Donkey Kong 3.  Here are the rules:

• Play on Mode A
• Play until Game Over
• Highest score wins

The contest ends Sunday, 5/13/12 at 10 PM NA time.  Your user name must be in the picture for your score to be valid.  The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid.  No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted.  Good luck everyone and have fun!
 

This should be a sweet contest! Good luck to everyone!

I'll start it off:

http://i191.photobucket.com/album...

161,200

I have been warming up and this is the highest i have gotten so far:
224,200

http://i191.photobucket.com/album...

369,200

Little bit better this time:
272,200

The controls for this game are stupid. Why use the up direction to jump and both A/B to shoot. Why no use A jump and B shoot like every other NES game out there
Well, here is a starter score for me...
BENIHANA 165,600

How do you want to handle score looping? Anything higher than 999,999 won't register.


ETA:
As you can see here:
http://i191.photobucket.com/album...

I propose taking a pic before a loop, and post it along with the final one...

The score freeze or roll?

^It rolls, just like most black box games

I would suggest one life, might help, but it's already started.

I'll check that later tonight. Since we see the round number on left, there's probably a way to secure rolling scores according to which round you're at. This might means to take a picture of your score before losing your last life to show the score and the round number.

Does the game actually get harder once you get up to these ridicules levels? Or is it one of those, once you get so far, it is hard...but not progressively harder.
I could see this turning into a marathon run for the winner if the game never get's any harder than level 50 or such...
Guess I need to practice some more...

After the 2nd or 3rd iteration of the levels, it stays the same for difficulty. Sometimes even easier if you're quick enough, and sometimes not all the random flying suiciders come out. Once the big moth type critters come out, the difficulty stops increasing. I looped the score on my last life, and don't remember (or have a screen shot) of my final score.

I also really hate the controls for this game.

I'm sitting this one out, but thought I'd chime in, since I know the game well.

Yup, the difficulty stops increasing at the point you mentioned (when the moths appear). Both the score and the round
number roll over. The score obviously rolls at a million and the round number rolls at 99. (It goes to zero and then one again, with no change in gameplay)

This can be an easy game, once you get the hang of it. Two people on Twin Galaxies (myself included) have scored 5 million points before (Andrew Furrer has the record at 5,391,500). It only takes like 2-3 hours, if I remember correctly.

I agree that the controls are wierd, but I like this game anyway. Loads of fun to play. Too bad the other Donkey Kong games overshadow it, because I think this game deserves more attention than it gets.

Yea, I think anything past the first million should require video proof since there's no way to determine anything past level 99.

You guys are some serious bug sprayers

Video is too much asking for this contest, but if anyone wants to record himself to validate a score over 1,000,000, that will work.

I'd like to suggest 2 options:

Option 1: Score attempt ends when you roll the score. Rolling the score earlier in the game takes precedence in rank.

Option 2: Score attempt ends when you reach level 99. You must take a picture every time you're rolling the score.

Let's go with Option 2 on this one.  We will allow multiple rolls of the score, but once someone gets to level 99, that's where the score attempt ends.

Sounds like a good solution to the issue, i wish i could score high enough to worry about those kind of problems.

So i was wondering what strategy you guys use ? clearing all the insects or running off DK ? or a combo of both?

go straight for DK, then when the bugs get close enough to worry about (about to the bottom of the vines and about 2 widths of the sprayer guy). I save the special sprayer until I know I need it (like if the bugs get too close or too many are around), since that only shows up one until you die, and it will always stay at the bottom of the screen.

The first time I used it when I rolled the score, I used it at level 30 or 35.

The level with the vines going across, fire and jump straight up, when the caterpillars get in front of your line of fire, hold off, kill the bug, resume, and watch out for DK throwing his coconut at you.

The level with the middle platform cut, I go left, jump up to the top and over quickly to start firing. When the bug that explodes comes down, I go over and fire at him twice while standing directly under him, and if the red / blue suiciders come out, I try to take care of them right away as well. Sometimes they don't show up, other times they do, sometimes I can get DK stuffed up before they come out.

The other level I use the same method, though I'll willingly jump down a platform if needed. Just hope you can do it before the caterpillars come out, because then it becomes a pain.

Those exploding bugs kill me more than anything else in the game

Stand directly under them and kill them. They explode 45 degree's and 67 degree's I believe, so you can avoid them easily from under them, unless they're directly above you (like, nearly touching you), then you're screwed.

I always just avoid shooting them.  They're slow and usually leave you alone.  When they fly at you, just jump down and run around them.